Word: orchid
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Cigar, Lady? With all his clowning, Breneman knows that it sometimes pays to be solemn. He is careful to treat old women with respect. He air-expresses an orchid to "the good neighbor of the day"-chosen from nominating letters sent in by listeners. Sometimes he presents an orchid to a member of the audience. Often she is a Midwestern farm woman who has never seen one before, and she frequently accepts it with tears in her eyes. Breneman will offer a grandmother a cigar if he thinks he can get away with it. He constantly asks his audience...
...press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart, Ivory Soap, peaches, cream and Dresden china, concluded: "This reporter would like to go on record that he has never...
...amateur, you know, and it wouldn't do-it just wouldn't -to do more than that. But wasn't it wonderful fun! The soldiers nicknamed me 'Queenie.' " A few days after Queenie won the national championship, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society named a white orchid after...
...Great Western Railway have been seen to eye gentlemen with bulbous suitcases. There has been talk that officers have gone so far as to think of requesting British citizens to open their packages. Last week, when the King & Queen visited Midlands factories, the Queen was handed an orchid bouquet. The King smilingly warned the Queen: "Be careful, if you take those flowers on the train-you don't want to break...
...torch singer in Chicago's best nightclubs, got all dressed up for a ceremony that made her No. 1 woman of the C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers. She laid aside her welder's apron and toolmaker's slacks, flounced into her party clothes, pinned an orchid to her shoulder and was off to her local's big celebration...